David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Celonis , the late stage process mining software startup, announced a $1 billion Series D investment this morning on an eye-popping $11 billion valuation, up from $2.5 Speeding up that first part of the operation with technology can bring down the cost and accelerate innovation and change. Durable Capital Partners LP and T.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. million Series A round, passed the due diligence process, and the investment committee had approved the deal. Andy Areitio. Contributor. Share on Twitter. I made that mistake.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

LTD , one of the largest security integration companies in the world, according to Forbes Global 2000 , has made a primary equity investment of $192 million in the two companies, $100M in Eagle Eye Networks and $92M in Brivo. The SECOM investment underscores that cloud and AI are the future of physical security,” said Drako.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This round of financing is the first substantial outside investment made in the company since it was picked up by private equity firm Fortissimo in 2018. With our long history of investing in the development ecosystem, we are confident that Incredibuild will continue to innovate and build upon their recent momentum.” Watch this space.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 30, 2020

Traditionally, corporations that invest in innovation during a crisis outperform peers by up to 30% during recovery, a recent McKinsey report reveals. Then came Covid-19, which has accelerated tech adoption like never before. The previous three recessions (2008, 2000-1, and 1991) were followed by spikes of automation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“A few macro-level trends are driving demand for Eclypsium’s solution, and therefore made this the right time to raise funding to enable accelerated growth,” Bulygin told TechCrunch in an email interview. And according to Crunchbase, venture dollars invested into cyber startups hit almost $6 billion in Q1 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, to weigh in on what we are seeing, and while they’re trying to make sense of things, too, they noted a couple of things that could impact the velocity of deal-making that we’ve been seeing. We have come back and invested with founders we originally declined.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

If you missed last week’s newsletter, read it here: “Tiger Global, fickle checks and the difficulty of acceleration.” Instead, Cloudflare just got dozens of venture firms to offer to invest up to $1.25 Three years ago, 500 Global said it would decide on investments all year instead of just twice yearly. Excerpt down below!

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. Before SAIC, she led the Corporate Venture Group at Maxim Integrated, where she led multiple strategic technology acquisitions and venture investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

The Yozma Programme (Hebrew for “initiative”) from the government, in 1993, was seminal: It offered attractive tax incentives to foreign VCs in Israel and promised to double any investment with funds from the government. This will offer participating companies grants worth 40% of an investment round up to $1.1

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It will likely take years, or even decades, before we have a full tech stack for generative AI and LLMs and a host of transformative applications—though we have reason to believe the impact is accelerated this time around. I actually think we’re going to see an acceleration of creation. You have this perverse economy of scale.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

Your own investment’s value may change because of a change in the value of the underlying asset and/or market preferences. However, few investors can directly impact the value of the underlying asset, except for private equity and venture capital investors with portfolio acceleration strategies. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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Paul G. Silva

JUNE 28, 2022

Originally a computational physicist who spent many long nights at a particle accelerator, since 2000 Paul inspired thousands of people to innovate, help hundreds of startups launch, overseen investments in 50+ startups and held leadership positions in the national angel investor community. Your Instructor.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

I say at 500,000 a technician, I need 2000 technicians. Bad employees get fired, good employees slow down the company, great employees accelerate. But, it’s an investment. When you start viewing things as an investment versus costs, and you truly believe it’s an investment, is when you change your whole reality.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. TC: Valo is trying to accelerate the creation of drugs, and it has a computational platform called Opal to do it faster and more effectively than many rivals.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. Specifically we talked about what single trigger vs. double trigger acceleration works and “termination without ’cause’ &#. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000.

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Angel Capital Association

AUGUST 13, 2021

I’m sharing my thought process because perhaps it will nudge some of you to angel invest too! I consider myself a furiously curious person, and angel investing is one of the most rewarding ways I’ve experienced to satisfy this curiosity. THE ORIGIN I was the Founder & CEO of InboxDollars from 2000 to 2019.

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Jason Calacanis

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Over the past decade, I invested in over 350 startups and watched up close as founders figured out how to do more with less. I've experienced two in my lifetime: the dot-com bubble (~1998-2000) and the ZIRP bubble (~2019-2021). Thanks for reading Jason Calacanis on Startups! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

frameworks

TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Plentywaka , a Nigerian bus-booking platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program. It will join nine other startups in the class of 2021 and secure funding from the accelerator as it sets its sights on global expansion.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This investment will potentially mean that Shopware will be a vehicle for PayPal to channel more of its newer initiatives as it looks to grow its own payments business beyond basic transactions. The money is notable not just for its nine-figure size, but also because of its context.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Founded in 2000, Clickatell is a pioneer in this mobile communications and chat commerce space. The Series C funding, which is coming a decade after the Sequoia-backed company raised its last round, was led by Arrowroot Capital, with Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, Endeavor Global and Harvest participating.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The MOPE investment will help the company accelerate its plans across brand, product and distribution,” said VT Bharadwaj, partner, A91 Partners. Partnering with MOPE will help accelerate our growth plans and significantly scale the business from current levels.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

The company has picked up $35 million in a Series B round of funding — money that it will be using for product development, as well as to strengthen its ecosystem with more investment into community, developer relations and cloud programs across more markets. Games companies are feeling the squeeze in developer capacity.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 17, 2022

The fresh capital will accelerate Tanaku’s mission to make home ownership accessible and radically transform the home buying experience, with the current focus on building the product, expanding the team, acquiring homes, and executing the go-to -market strategy. “We Register Tanaku , an Indonesia-based proptech startup , raised $5.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 22, 2015

Given the $50B raised by VCs, this year, half of the dollars raised in 2000 and the second highest amount in those 14 years, there’s plenty of cash to chase exceptional early stage software companies and pay premiums to invest. I doubt these trends will alter early stage investing dynamics much at all.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A shift from late-stage pre-IPO investing to renewed emphasis on early stage. From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? From VCs to Investment Advisors… and back again? But this will be especially hard to deal with for early-stage investors, given that we expect most of our investments to fail to return capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It’s a new startup backed by eFounders that wants to bring community-driven, AngelList-style angel investments to European startups. The company has built a platform that simplifies the administrative, legal and financial challenges that come with angel investments. million to accelerate its assistive mobility wearable , Brian reports.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

Companies like this now only needed a small amount of money to get started, but there wasn’t any place to get it, because institutional investors didn’t make small investments. The VC invests a large amount of money upfront and takes a controlling ownership stake. But I think the rise of institutional seed funding accelerated it.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our nuclear rollout peaked in the 1970s during the oil crisis—President Nixon championed “ Project Independence ,” which aimed to build 1,000 nuclear reactors by 2000. Furthermore, potential customers, like utilities, are unlikely to invest in nuclear reactors if they’re continually over budget, delayed, or entirely abandoned.

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